Digital Equipment DECstation 5000/100 Series, Maintenance Manual

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For example, to use the protocol named mop to boot
from the base system Ethernet, which uses slot number
3, type boot 3/mop and press Return.
To boot from a drive, use the file specification form
slot_number
/( rz | tz )
scsi_id
/
file_name
.
When you type this file specification,
Replace slot_number with the SCSI controller slot
number.
Use the (rz | tz) parameter to specify the type of
drive that performs the boot operation.
Specify rz to boot from a hard disk or compact
disc drive.
Specify tz to boot from a tape drive.
Replace scsi_id with the SCSI ID for the drive you
are using to boot.
Replace
file_name with the name of the specific file
you want to boot.
For example, to boot the file named vmunix in multi-
user mode from a hard disk drive with SCSI ID 1 that
is on the SCSI bus connected to the base system SCSI
controller in slot 3, type boot 3/rz1/vmunix -a and
press Return. To boot the file called vmunix from a
tape drive that has SCSI ID 2 and is on the SCSI bus
connected to a SCSI controller in option slot 1, type
boot 1/tz2/vmunix
and press Return.
To perform a multi-user boot operation, include the -a
argument. If you omit the -a argument, the system
performs a single-user boot.
Important information about typing the boot command
If you include no bootpath in the boot command, the system
uses the boot environment variable as the string for the
boot command.
If you include any additional arguments, you must type
the entire string in the boot command. The system ignores
the boot environment variable whenever you specify any
arguments in the boot command.
C–8 Console Commands